GAME FISHES OE SOUTH AMERICA 



or seventy pounds, and many more. The Bocas between the 

 islands are the favourite places, and the angler proposing to 

 go there will do well to read the article by Captatn W. J. P. 

 Benson, E.E.G.S., in Badminton Magazine of September, 1912,^ 

 which is the best account of this angling I have seen. 



America has contributed to the sport of Argentina, and Lago 

 l^Tahuel, near the Chilean boundary, has been stocked with 

 several kinds of trout, and so distributed over the state. Land- 

 locked salmon were placed in Lake N'ahuel, Huapi, Traful, 

 Gutierrez and Correntosa. These are large lakes, from ten to 

 thirty miles long. Brook-trout and lake-trout have done well, also 

 land-locked salmon and various others. Lake trout have been 

 placed in Lake Argentino and Lake San Martin ; Eainbows in 

 the Rio Santa Cruz. Steelhead have also been successfully intro- 

 duced, and cod in the sea waters ; so the American fishes are 

 going around the world. One of the interesting South American 

 fishes is the Dorado (Salmus maxillosus), not uncommonly taken 

 by the natives of Bolivia. The river Pilcornago is an especially 

 good locality for it. The fish is a hard fighter, attains a length 

 of three feet, and according to Mr. E. Baynes Babcock, who 

 describes it in the Fishing Gazette, it is a good, edible, and sport- 

 ing fish. 



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